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      From kanun-ı kadim (ancient law) to umumun kuvveti (force of people): historical context of the Ottoman constitutionalism

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      Author
      Sönmez, E.
      Date
      2016
      Source Title
      Middle Eastern Studies
      Print ISSN
      0026-3206
      Publisher
      Routledge
      Volume
      52
      Issue
      1
      Pages
      116 - 134
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This paper attempts to examine the prevailing scholarly view on the Young Ottoman and the Young Turk movements, which postulates that the concept of constitutionalism was solely and directly based on the western model, imported by the constitutionalist movements to the Ottoman Empire. As a child of the ‘modernization theory’, this approach mostly concentrates on European impact in an isolated manner, thus overlooking not only the manifold sources of the Ottoman constitutionalism, but also the means of legitimation that the Young Ottomans and the Young Turks cultivated. In view of this, I seek to shed light on the historical context of the Ottoman constitutionalism, by pointing out how the Young Ottomans and the Young Turks perceived the power struggles in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and built continuity between themselves and the political position that aimed to restrict the royal prerogative before the nineteenth century. © 2015 Taylor & Francis.
      Keywords
      Ahmed Rıza
      Namık Kemal
      Ottoman constitutionalism
      The Young Ottomans
      the Young Turk movement
      Şinasi
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/22813
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2015.1081384
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